Florida House bill introduced that would prohibit cyberbullying

A bill to end cyberbullying will be introduced to the House Wednesday. The bill would prohibit any behavior considered to be bullying between K-12 students as well as between faculty members and students.

Co-sponsor of the bill Rep. Mike Fasano said the bill would require each school board to adopt an individual policy against bullying and harassment in schools. He said the consequences of breaking the law would be left in the hands of the school system instead of being established by law enforcement or the bill itself.

“The bill, if it were to pass, would define bullying as systematically and chronically inflicting the physical hurt or psychological distress on one or more students,” he said.

Fasano said bullying may include teasing, social exclusion, threats, intimidation, stalking, physical violence, theft, public humiliation, destruction of property and sexual, religious or racial harassment.

“This can no longer or cannot at all be tolerated at our school districts,” he said.

Fasano says there is a very good chance the bill will pass. The bill has been filed and is being heard by the K-12 subcommittee, which he said is a good sign that it is moving in the right direction.

I once was a problematic mother with bullied children because of these social networking sites. But I searched for solutions or programs that could help me monitor them while they are online. I want to know who are harassing them so that I can make
my own move. I can’t tell them to stop using these sites because it’s the trend. But at least I can speak to those people bullying them and can advise them to stop. I just want to let you know that I have found a service. It requires no installs or downloads that monitors your child’s facebook all the time regardless of what they use to access which I thought was great and I am using.It is called pgguard. You can google it so that you will know more about it. It helped me a lot; I hope it can help others too.

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